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How to compare a git stash to the current working tree?
In git you can put your current changes aside for a moment with git stash. This is really neat but what often ends up happening is that you forget what was in there, and what was the state of the branch at the time of stashing.
There's git stash show, but it only displays the differences to the stash's parent commit. I would like to see the diff to my current working tree.
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Well it was easier than I thought:
git diff stash
A note about the direction: This will show things which are present in the working directory but not present in the stash as added +. And vice versa with removed things. If this sounds counterintuitive, you can reverse it with the -R flag.
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